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Pinhole Press vacation book

We love taking vacation photos (who doesn't?) but then we never really look at them again. They're just stuck on our computers. So! We decided to make a Pinhole Press photo book with our England vacation snapshots, and I love love love the way it turned out. The paper is really soft, the photos look gorgeous, and it's amazing to have a little book of our vacation. Alex and I have read through it like fifty times. :) Here are a few of the pages...Anyway, it was easy to make and it's so wonderful to have; now I'm dying to make litte photo books for all our vacations and events, including every Christmas break and our wedding and honeymoon. Thought I'd share! xoxoP.S. Inspired, I also made some thank-you notes to have on hand at home, using a photo Amy Merrick emailed me of her flowers. :)

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Oh, Joanna ... it turned out so beautiful! I can't help but think that getting a book like this made would bring on a bit of "celebrity" feeling for you ... seeing your, toby's, alex's, and the rest of the fams mugs grinning back ... it is like your family has been published!! ;) {my, pinhole press does such a great job ... the book looks so professional!}

I LOVE this idea ... sadly, I am guilty of having a million pictures just laying around in my computer ... sure, once in a GREAT while I stumble on them and enjoy a trip down memory lane but creating a lovely book would be such a better place to cherish adventures in :)

Aww what a sweet idea! I often think about getting our photo box down and look though the photos again but it seems like such a big job most of the time. But by having little books I would look at them whenever I fancy. Ohh and it would be a perfect conversation starter during dinner parties. Love this Joanna! Your book and the thank you card looks fantastic. Kisses

That is such a great idea! My fiancé and I are going to Canada for the first time in September and I haven't experienced Fall since I moved to Florida so I just know I will have tons of beautiful pics and next year is our honeymoon in Eurpoe. I can't wait to take my pics so I can make these wonderful photo books. Thanks for the tip!

This is totally stunning! I NEVER look at photos on my computer. They just get lost in the great abyss... I want to make books of all my special vacations and events from now on. Of course, now I will have to plan one!

Thank you for this! I just got home on Wednesday from England and Scotland and have NO CLUE what do to with the oodles of photos on my memory cards (it's a month's worth of photos). This is perfect for me. Now the hard part is deciding the photos to put in...

You're so right to actually use the photos you take! I've been meaning to do the same thing! Question, though, what dress are you wearing in the photos of holding the book? Looks like a gorgeous colour and fun and wrap-py!

Hi there! Following all the way from Spain. I've lived in Spain (from the UK originally) for 10 years, so you can't imagine how many photos I have. What a fantastic idea. I'm off to check the link out. Have a lovely weekend :-)

I'm absolutely inspired by this! your vacation prints are beautiful, and it looks great in a little book like that, not pretencious at all, I love this idea to make with my million pics, wedding, vacations, holydays...etc. Thanks for sharing!

The only thing I don't have around here in my city is a wonderful place like pinhole press, So I would have to do it all myself and just print it away... also amy merrik, GORGEOUS FLOWERS, and pics and her site beautiful, I wish I could go live in NYC!

So great! I'm making a book to give to my sister for christmas. I love the idea of getting back to family albums. I know I still flip through ours from when we we're kids and that's when we still printed photos and stuck them inside!

I love the way the photos are arranged: Grandpa and grandson (both so sweet) side by side, two babies in pictures side by side, two pics of snacking on the little boat. Boy, you have a good looking family!

you just totally inspired me. as a photographer you can imagine that I have about 1,345,978 photos...and that's just July 2011! I've been meaning to do this for ages and now I'm going to start for sure. I started to print my images and putting them in albums but I love the idea of a book like this too. yours looks incredible.

Great idea! Our families made us little photo books for Christmas with our engagement photos. It's super cute and special, and now we look at those photos together more often! I also love the idea of custom Thank you cards.

I made one of these for our wedding guestbook! The beginning ha pictures of when we got engaged (at Disneyworld in front of Cinerella's castle!) along with a breif story about how he proposed. The rest of the pages were filled with our professional engagement pictures with big margins and blank pages for our guests to leave us love notes (no lines forced people to write an actual note instead of just signing their name!).

It turned out perfect! Now it's a lovely coffee table book that I look at all the time instead of just shoving it in a box for storage! I absolutely love it. I'm glad yours turned out so lovely! Such amazing pictures! I love small town Europe :)

I make one book a year which turns out to be about 100 pages. It's a lovely keepsakes of travel, big events and the kids growing up. I also have one saved for each kid that includes a photo at their birthday - I'll most likely print it for them when they are 16.

It looks great! I've used snapfish with mixed results. I'm putting together a book for Miss L's second year, and I'll give it a try. Of course, you take much better pics than I do, so maybe that's the key!

i was wondering if the texture is some what like the toast catalogue are you familiar with it, i have been looking to make postcards and book with that texture.

again lovely johanna, and i have to have to say i think your post on motherhood are so inspiring, i have not been able to have children but somehow, if i did i know i would breath a big sigh of relief when reading your pieces.

Dont you just LOVE Amy M work! I swoon all day on her site and blog I swear. That lake house is amazing! This book idea is great too! I have gobs of photos just chillin. Perhaps I'll go through and pull together some I'd like to see in a book :) thanks for the great ideas!

Beautiful! Is there an option of creating captions for the photos somehow? I'd love to create a few books but want to be able to identify the people in the photos. I've been looking through my Grandma's old photos recently and we've had a lot of "who the heck is that?"

Joanna - I am SOOO excited you said that re shipping and the UK. Hooray.we have so many wedding and honeymoon pictures (married last October) and am dying to do this.Thanks for making my day and happy weekend!x

Love it! I was just thinking that I need to get photos printed soon (I have photos from my eurotrip in 2006 that I haven't printed!!!) and I love the idea of creating a book like this for special trips or events, or maybe even doing one per year.Unfortunately it doesn't look like they ship to Canada, but I'm going to contact and see if they would.

thanks for these lovely comments!! yes, the paper is AWESOME and much better than shutterfly, etc. it's super soft and matte and really pretty -- i think it is kind of like the Toast catalog, actually!

To me these books are a bit expensive for what they are. I'd rather develop pictures at a local photographer and glue them into a hand made album. So much cheaper and albums have tons of character unlike printed photobooks. But that's just me:)

my fiance and i are going to make books like this as our guest books, instead of the old "sign here" books. thought it would be a good way to use our engagement pictures and also a book we could leave out on the coffee table. i love picture books so much!

thanks to you, joanna, i'm in love with pinhole press. i did 4 different panoramic mini photo books with our wedding photos for my 2 grandmothers and both sets of parents. they were stunning, and everyone LOVED them. just got back from 2 weeks in scotland, england and france... think this calls for another book!

lovely keepsake! Thanks for introducing me to Pinhole Press - I was undecided about what to get my husband for our upcoming 1-yr wedding anniversary - since this year is "paper" I've ordered him a very special framed print. can't wait until it arrives!

I used Pinhole Press to make photo books for my bosses in celebration of their organization's 40th anniversary. I interspersed photos and handwritten notes of congratulations. The books came out so beautifully, and everyone loved them so much! Plus, the people at Pinhole Press were amazingly attentive and helpful. Thanks for telling us all about such a great company! Now I'm going to use them to make my guest book for my wedding!

Gorgeous and such a treasure. These books really are the best. I've used them in various forms (shutterfly/kodak) for my designs portfolios, but now think I'll go with pinhole for future books (you've successfully converted me)... so incredibly lovely. Thanks you for sharing!

We are the same...photos just stay on our computer forever and we do nothing to create a tangible record of our vacation (besides pray our computer doesn't crash before we back it up). I think we'll have to take a peek at these. I'm bookmarking...

Lovely! I do one of these after every bog holiday, but at the end of each year I also do a book of the year to collect all those little random photos that wouldn't make an album. We have them going back as far as 2002 now - they're so lovely to flick through :)

I REALLY like this a lot. I know what you mean about being stored away bc we have been to Malaysia, Indonesia, Bali, Dubai and so many places and I feel like all the amazing pictures are just up :(. How much did this cost you if you do not mind? I would LOVE to have some made. I am not in the states though.

I love this idea - thanks for sharing. And I can see what you mean about it looking like the Toast catalog.

Polruan is my home town so I'm ever so slightly biased!

I'm all pleased to hear that Pinhole will be shipping to the UK soon. We're getting married in Polruan in a few weeks time and it will be a great keepsake to make a book of the weekend for family and friends.

I'm so excited to be able to welcome friends to Polruan who haven't visited before.